SAXON is a simple accessible online news publishing system for personal and small corporate site owners.

A security problem in the product allows attackers to commit SQL injection.

Advisory URL:

http://www.netvigilance.com/advisory0055

Release Date:

10/29/2007

CVSS Version 2 Metrics:

Base Metrics:

Exploitability Metrics:

Access Vector:

Network

Access Complexity:

Medium

Authentication:

None

Impact Metrics:

Confidentiality Impact:

Complete

Integrity Impact:

Partial

Availability Impact:

Partial

Temporal Metrics:

Exploitability:

Functional

Remediation Level:

Official Fix

Report Confidence:

Confirmed

CVSS Version 2 Vectors:

Base Vector:

"AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:P/A:P"

Temporal Vector:

"E:F/RL:OF/RC:C"

CVSS Version 2 Scores:

Base Score:

8.3

Exploitability Subscore:

8.5

Impact Subscore:

8.6

Temporal Score:

6.9

SecureScout Testcase ID:

TC 17992

Vulnerable Systems:

SAXON version 5.4

Vulnerability Type:

SQL injection allows malicious people to execute their own SQL scripts. This could be exploited to obtain sensitive data, modify database contents or acquire administrator's privileges.

Vendor:

Quirm

Vendor Status:

The Vendor has confirmed the problem and has release new version 5.41 that addresses the problem. New version of product was tested and we can confirm that all vulnerabilities were solved. For more information see vendor announcement. To download the latest version go to vendors product download area.

Workaround:

From netVigilance:

In the php.ini file set magic_quotes_gpc = On.

From vendor:

In future merge to PHP6, because magic_quotes will be removed from PHP 6 completely. See http://www.php.net/~derick/meeting-notes.html#magic-quotes.